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Monday, June 29, 2015

Sweden: Muslim Rape Capital of the West

Forty years after the Swedish
parliament unanimously decided to change the formerly homogenous Sweden into a
multicultural country, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472%.
Sweden is now number two on the list of rape countries, surpassed only by
Lesotho in Southern Africa.

Significantly, the report does not
touch on the background of the rapists. One should, however, keep in mind that
in statistics, second-generation immigrants are counted as Swedes. In an astounding number of cases, the Swedish
courts have demonstrated sympathy for the rapists, and have acquitted suspects
who have claimed that the girl wanted to have sex with six, seven or eight men.

The internet radio station Granskning
Sverige called the mainstream newspapers Aftonposten and Expressen to ask why
they had described the perpetrators as "Swedish men" when they
actually were Somalis without Swedish citizenship. They were hugely offended
when asked if they felt any responsibility to warn Swedish women to stay away
from certain men. One journalist asked why that should be their responsibility.

In 1975, the Swedish parliament
unanimously decided to change the former homogeneous Sweden into a
multicultural country. Forty years later the dramatic consequences of this
experiment emerge: violent crime has increased by 300%.

If one looks at the number of rapes,
however, the increase is even worse. In 1975, 421 rapes were reported to the
police; in 2014, it was 6,620. That is an increase of 1,472%. Sweden is now
number two on the global list of rape countries. According to a survey from
2010, Sweden, with 53.2 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants, is surpassed only by
tiny Lesotho in Southern Africa, with 91.6 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants.

Rape rate per 100,000 population,
comparison by country (selected top and bottom countries), 2012 statistics
taken from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (Image source:
Wikimedia Commons)

According to figures published by The
Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet; known
as Brå) -- an agency under the Ministry of Justice -- 29,000 Swedish women,
during 2011, reported that they had been raped (which seems to indicate that
less than 25% of the rapes are reported to the police).

Strange explanations

Rather than doing something about the
problem of violence and rape, Swedish politicians, public authorities and media
do their best to explain away the facts. Here are some of their explanations:

- Swedes have become
more prone to report crime.

- The law has been
changed so that more sexual offences are now classed as rape.

- Swedish men cannot handle increased
equality between the sexes and react with violence against women (perhaps the
most fanciful excuse).

A long-held feminist myth is that the
most dangerous place for a woman is her own home -- that most rapes are
committed by someone she knows. This claim was refuted by Brå's report: "In 58% of cases, the perpetrator
was entirely unknown by the victim. In 29% of cases the perpetrator was an acquaintance,
and in 13% of cases the perpetrator was a person close to the victim."

Brå reports that there are no major
differences between women of Swedish and foreign background when it comes to
the risk of being raped. Significantly, the report does not touch on the
background of the rapists.

Without parallel

Back in 1975, the year when politicians
decided that Sweden was to become multicultural, the Swedish population stood
at 8,208,442. By 2014 it had grown to 9,743,087 -- an increase of 18.7%. This
growth is entirely due to immigration, as Swedish women on average give birth
to 1.92 children compared to the 2.24 average of immigrant women. One should,
however, keep in mind that in the statistics, second-generation immigrants are
counted as Swedes.

Sweden's recent population growth is
without parallel. Never before in the country's history has the number of
inhabitants increased so fast. Sweden is now the fastest growing country in
Europe.

Over the past 10-15 years, immigrants have mainly come from Muslim
countries such as Iraq, Syria and Somalia. Might this mass influx explain
Sweden's rape explosion? It is difficult to give a precise answer, because
Swedish law forbids registration based on people's ancestry or religion.

One possible explanation is that, on average, people from the Middle
East have a vastly different view of women and sex than Scandinavians have. And
despite the attempts by the Swedish establishment to convince the population
that everyone setting foot on Swedish soil becomes exactly like those who have
lived here for dozens of generations, facts point in an altogether different
direction.

The latest statistical survey of
immigrant criminality compared to that of Swedes was done in 2005. The results
are practically never mentioned. Not only that; anyone who dares refer to them,
for example on social media, is viciously attacked.

Denigration of ethnic groups

Michael Hess, a local politician from
Sweden Democrat Party, encouraged Swedish journalists to get acquainted with
Islam's view of women, in connection with the many rapes that took place in
Cairo's Tahrir Square during the "Arab Spring". Hess wrote,
"When will you journalists realize that it is deeply rooted in Islam's
culture to rape and brutalize women who refuse to comply with Islamic
teachings. There is a strong connection between rapes in Sweden and the number
of immigrants from MENA-countries [Middle East and North Africa]."

This remark led to Michael Hess being
charged with "denigration of ethnic groups" [hets mot folkgrupp], a
crime in Sweden. In May last year, he was handed a suspended jail sentence and
a fine -- the suspension was due to the fact that he had no prior convictions.
The verdict has been appealed to a higher court.

For many years, Michael Hess lived in
Muslim countries, and he is well acquainted with Islam and its view of women.
During his trial, he provided evidence of how sharia law deals with rape, and
statistics to indicate that Muslims are vastly overrepresented among
perpetrators of rape in Sweden. However, the court decided that facts were
irrelevant:

"The Court [Tingsrätten] notes
that the question of whether or not Michael Hess's pronouncement is true, or
appeared to be true to Michael Hess, has no bearing on the case. Michael Hess's
statement must be judged based on its timing and context. ... At the time of
the offense, Michael Hess referred neither to established research nor to
Islamic sources. It was only in connection with his indictment that Michael
Hess tried to find support in research and religious writings.

The Court therefore notes that Michael
Hess's pronouncement was obviously not a part of any reasoned [saklig] or
trustworthy [vederhäftig] discussion. Michael Hess's pronouncement must
therefore be viewed as an expression of disdain for immigrants with an Islamic
faith."

Statistical evidence

What may one conclude from the
available statistics? As part of the evidence Michael Hess presented in court,
he made use of whatever statistics existed on immigrant criminality in Sweden
before the statistical authorities stopped measuring. Michael Hess tried to
find answers to two questions:

Is there a correspondence between the
incidence of rape and the number of people with a foreign background in Sweden?
Is there a correspondence between the incidence of rape and some specific group
of immigrants in Sweden?

The answer to both questions was an
unequivocal Yes. Twenty-one research reports from the 1960s until today are
unanimous in their conclusions: Whether or not they measured by the number of
convicted rapists or men suspected of rape, men of foreign extraction were
represented far more than Swedes. And this greater representation of persons
with a foreign background keeps increasing:

1960-1970s – 1.2 to
2.6 times as often as Swedes

1980s – 2.1 to 4.7
times as often as Swedes

1990s – 2.1 to 8.1
times as often as Swedes

2000s – 2.1 to 19.5 times as often as
Swedes

Even when adjusted for variables such
as age, sex, class and place of residence, the huge discrepancy between
immigrants and Swedes remains. Research reports on crime in Sweden have become
a rarity, but among the eighteen that were done during the 1990s and the 2000s,
eleven dealt with rape.

Two of these reports dealt with the connection between
rape and immigration, and they both confirmed that there is a link. These
figures are available to the authorities, the politicians and the press, yet they
insist that these numbers do not mirror reality.

Glaring discrepancy

How is it, then, that in 2008, Sweden's
neighbor Denmark only had 7.3 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants compared to 53.2 in
Sweden? Danish legislation is not very different from Sweden's, and there is no
obvious reason why Danish women should be less inclined to report rape than
their Swedish counterparts.

In 2011, 6,509 rapes were reported to
the Swedish police -- but only 392 in Denmark. The population of Denmark is
about half the size of Sweden's, so even adjusted for size, the discrepancy is
significant.

In Sweden, the authorities do what they
can to conceal the origin of the rapists. In Denmark, the state's official
statistical office, Statistics Denmark, revealed that in 2010 more than half of
convicted rapists had an immigrant background.

Foreigners overrepresented

Since 2000, there has only been one
research report on immigrant crime. It was done in 2006 by Ann-Christine Hjelm
from Karlstads University. It emerged that in 2002, 85% of those sentenced to
at least two years in prison for rape in Svea Hovrätt, a court of appeals, were
foreign born or second-generation immigrants.

A 1996 report by the Swedish National
Council for Crime Prevention reached the conclusion that immigrants from North
Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) were 23 times as likely to commit
rape as Swedish men. The figures for men from Iraq, Bulgaria and Romania were,
respectively, 20, 18 and 18. Men from the rest of Africa were 16 times more
prone to commit rape; and men from Iran, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, 10 times as
prone as Swedish men.

Gang rapes

Muslim gang-rapists in Sweden.

A new trend reached Sweden with full
force over the past few decades: gang rape -- virtually unknown before in
Swedish criminal history. The number of gang rapes increased spectacularly
between 1995 and 2006. Since then no studies of them have been undertaken.

One of the worst cases occurred in
2012, when a 30-year old woman was raped by eight men in a housing project for
asylum seekers, in the small town of Mariannelund. The woman was an
acquaintance of a man from Afghanistan who had lived in Sweden for a number of
years. He invited her to go out with him. She obliged. The Afghan man took her
to a refugee housing project and left her defenseless.

During the night, she was raped
repeatedly by the asylum seekers and when her "friend" returned, he
raped her too. The following morning she managed to call the police. Sweden's
public prosecutor has called the incident "the worst crime of rape in
Swedish criminal history."

Seven of the men were sentenced to
between 4.5 and 6.5 years in prison. Prison time is usually reduced by a third,
so it won't be long before the men will be ready for new assaults -- presumably
on infidel women.

In cases of gang rape, culprits and
victims are most often young and in almost every case, the perpetrators are of
immigrant background, mostly from Muslim countries. In an astounding number of
cases, the Swedish courts have demonstrated sympathy for the rapists. Several
times the courts have acquitted suspects who have claimed that the girl wanted
sex with six, seven or eight men.

One striking incident occurred in 2013,
in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta. A 15-year-old girl was locked up while six
men of foreign extraction had sex with her. The lower court convicted the six
men but the court of appeals acquitted them because no violence had occurred,
and because the court determined that the girl "had not been in a
defenseless position."

This month, all major Swedish media
reported on a brutal gang rape on board the Finnish Ferry Amorella, running
between Stockholm and Åbo in Finland. Big headlines told the readers that the
perpetrators were Swedish:

"Several Swedish
Men Suspected of Rape on the Finland Ferry" (Dagens Nyheter).

On closer inspection, it turned out that seven of the eight suspects
were Somalis and one was Iraqi. None of them had Swedish citizenship, so they
were not even Swedish in that sense. According to witnesses, the group of men
had been scouring the ferry looking for sex. The police released four of them
(but they are still suspects) whereas four (all Somalis) remain in custody.

The internet radio station Granskning
Sverige called the mainstream newspapers Aftonposten and Expressen to ask why
they had described the perpetrators as "Swedish men" when they were actually
Somalis. That is irrelevant, said the journalists. They were hugely offended
when asked if they felt any responsibility to warn Swedish women to stay away
from certain men. One journalist asked why that should be their responsibility.

"If the women knew, then perhaps
they would have stayed away from these men and avoided being raped," said
the reporter from Granskning Sverige. Whereupon the journalist slammed down the
phone.

Somali Brutally Raped 12-year-old Swedish Girl

Somali-Muslim rapist "Guled Mohamud".

18-year-old Somali citizen who brutally
raped a 12-year-old Swedish girl in Sundsvall last year was sentenced to 180
hours of community service this week. Ida the child victim claims she went home
to Mohamud because he had promised to give back intimate pictures that he had
of her.

The injured party is only 12 years old.
She has recounted the incident but did so with a child’s language. Although her
story isn’t that extensive it contains some unique details, such as Guled
Mohamud several times having stated that “black cock is expensive”

Ida’s mother attested that when she saw
her daughter later that day she looked as though she had been beaten up and
bled profusely from her lower abdomen. The court concluded that it is beyond
reasonable doubt that he raped the girl vaginally, showered her face / head
with blows and held a hand in front of her mouth.

Nonetheless Mohamud was sentenced to a measly 180 hours of community
service with probation because he had “some trouble with anxiety and sleeping”
and was allegedly 17 years of age at the time.

Reporting the origin and/or name of the
Somali citizen in question would be tantamount to blasphemy for SVT journalist
Oscar Söderström. It is therefore unsurprising that he followed in his
politically-correct colleagues footsteps by self-censoring and describing the
perpetrator as: “a man from Sundsvall”.